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Show . 'l AROUND OUR Did you know that dairying is a million dollar industry in Beaver County? Well, it is. According to information obtained ob-tained by Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural College and county agents in 1955, sale of milk amounted to $812,000; sale of dairy cattle cat-tle and calve, $144,000. Add to this the payrolls of Uie two creameries in the county, the cooperative milking barns and the milk haulers and you have well over a million dollars-More dollars-More than half cf the milk ! produced is grade A, processed in modern milking parlors, many of which have pipeline milkers. All have bulk cooling and hoiding tanks, eliminating the use of milk cans. The influx of people that the Glen Canyon Dam will bring (some estimates run as high as 15,000 to 20,000 people) offers a good opporcunity for market ing a lot more grade A milk in that area when the development develop-ment comes. Dairymen and dairy organizations should be working to make sure Beaver County gels its share of this new market. The growth of Las Vegas the past 15 years has provided the market for most of the Grade A milk produced in the county at present. Dr. Joseph Blake, veterinarian veterinar-ian from USAC, and Max Bowles, fieldman for Cache Valley Breeding Ass'n., spoke at meetings of the Beaver and Minersville units of the association asso-ciation last week. Dr. Blake discussed breeding problems and Max showed pictures o' some of the bulls at Cache Valley, Val-ley, and some of their daughters. daugh-ters. Dr. Blake visited several herds in Beaver and Minersville to help with breeding problems. prob-lems. f visited the Don and Evan Patterson farm the other day and saw some very good artificially arti-ficially sired heifers. They have an H-15 daughter that recently re-cently freshened and was giving |